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I feel like calculus in high school can be so easily motivated but isn't. For what a high schooler is concerned, you can use it to model the depreciation of mob
by jhanschoo 4y ago
I feel like calculus in high school can be so easily motivated but isn't. For what a high schooler is concerned, you can use it to model the depreciation of mobile devices, cost per day of upgrading devices or how much you save each day by waiting to buy (assuming used market), estimated lifetime revenue for each piece of social media content, the same parametrized on subscribers at time of upload, estimated lifetime additional subscribers per piece of content, etc.
- uup 4y agoThis assumes most people care about making optimal financial decisions. They don’t.
- mixedCase 4y agoYou know what they care less about? The complete abstract and being forced to learn a complex subject without a single morsel of motivation.
- Ntrails 4y agoYou're right! You know how you make them care? Demonstrating over and over again how important it is. At school. A place where we are supposed to equip people with the knowledge of how to function effectively in society. To give them the tools to live the best life they can. School is a place where we indoctrinate all sorts of ideas into students, maybe we could spend a little more time highlighting financial decisions since it is so core to quality of life?
- zargon 4y agoMy discrete math professor always made the problems involve food. Because college students are always interested in food, he said.